mr. speaker , the economic disaster wrought by a radical free trade policy on the working people of america is well documented , but i am going to focus on another aspect of this wto agreement that the previous gentleman spoke about .  he said that the secretive dispute resolution panel , which has no conflict-of-interest rules , does not allow outside interveners , only allows the two representative governments into the room , and deliberates secretly and comes up with a binding , a binding , decision and can not change u.s. laws .  now , i raised this issue with the clinton administration when they negotiated this misbegotten agreement ; and i said , how can you enter us into an agreement where secretive panels can preempt our laws ?  they said , oh , you do not understand , you are wrong , just like the gentleman before me .  yes , it is technically true , they can not reach into the united states and change a law .  we can , if they find our rule to be non-wto compliant , which they have more than 90 percent of the time when complaints are brought against the united states of america , we have an option .  we can repeal the law , or we can pay a fine to keep it , a huge fine , in many cases .  so environmental protection , consumer protection , buy america , buy oregon , buy your state , all of those things , we can have those laws .  that is right .  he is technically right .  we just have to pay massive penalties to foreign governments to keep them .  this is an extraordinary undermining of the sovereignty of the united states of america and the interests of the american people .  this is not about free trade ; this is about corporate-managed trade through a secretive body which is dominated by those very same corporations and many dictatorial governments around the world ; and the u.s. is bound by their secretive decisions .  this is absolutely outrageous .  to date , the wto has ruled u.s. policies illegal 42 out of 48 cases , 85.7 percent that has been brought against us .  they ruled illegal regulation issued under the clean air act ; the united states tax code ; laws to protect companies from unfair dumping or subsidized foreign products , among others .  and it is true .  we can keep those laws if we are willing to pay massive fines to keep them .  now , what kind of sovereignty is that ?  next in their sights are buy america laws , those referenced by the gentleman from the carolinas .  what he said is he does not want to see a social security program administered from china .  now , people would have thought that was a weird thing to say .  no .  the wto requires we can not discriminate in terms of who the vendors will be .  in fact , homeland security can be provided by the chinese , or maybe even by iran , under the rules of the wto .  will that not be just peachy ?  this is an extraordinarily radical agreement which we do not need .  the u.s. did just fine as the greatest trading nation in the world with bilateral agreements .  we can go back to that system , and we can do better than we are doing under this so-called rules-based system .  